Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret over the attacks a conservative public relations firm — hired by Facebook — lobbed against billionaire liberal philanthropist George Soros.
During an interview with CNN, Zuckerberg uncomfortably addressed a variety of allegations against his social media network that were laid our in a recent New York Times story about Facebook’s internal handling of a series of crises related to the Cambridge Analytica data breach and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The Times report revealed that Facebook at one point hired a consulting firm that placed the blame for a supposed anti-Facebook movement on Soros, a longtime, frequent target of conservative groups.
This week, Zuckerberg acknowledged the attacks went too far.
“I don’t think that this is the type of thing that our company should be engaging with,” he said. “I know that George Soros has been the target of a lot of really horrendous attacks and I think that that is terrible. And I certainly wouldn’t want anyone who is associated with our company to be part of that.”
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— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) November 21, 2018
FB is the classic practitioner of “better to ask forgiveness than permission”. FB is a ravening beast with an insatiable appetite for market share, profit and pure monopoly power. The more that comes to light in the Russia probe proves that FB is a bad actor and is entirely unconcerned with the dark side of its business model. Anyone who thinks FB is going to police itself is incredibly naive.
But you hired a company to slander him recently and have let countless bots promote anti-Soros crap for years. This guy, smdh.
Zuckerberg is increasingly proving himself to be out of his depth as well as corrupt.
“I know that George Soros has been the target of a lot of really horrendous attacks and I think that that is terrible…"
Facebook is a kid who got lucky with a website. He doesn’t belong in the conversation with people who have built useful things.